DEBATE CENTRAL
Debating Resources for the World since 1994
Comprehensive survey of argumentation, persuasion, public speaking, and debating.An educational series for students, teachers, and citizens interested in critical communication skills. The emergence of a global community of ideas and discourse requires successful individuals to develop critical advocacy skills to develop strong ideas, to present them effectively, to defend them skillfully, and to critically analyze opposing ideas. Based on decades of international experience, this series will provide you with the ideas and training you need to succeed. Click on the lecture title to view that lecture through streaming video. |
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PARTS |
TITLE
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CONTENTS |
SPEAKERS |
LENGTH |
ONE |
Study &
practice of debate, where to find debate, preview of major topics, reasons
to gain debating skills. |
Snider, Meany, Berube |
48 minutes |
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TWO |
Definition
of an argument, induction, deduction, causation. |
Snider,
Meany, Berube |
43 minutes |
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THREE |
Role of
proof in argument, expert opinion, historical fact, statistics, empirical
study, testimony, analogy, comparison, popular belief, and tradition. |
Snider,
Meany, Berube |
44 minutes |
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FOUR |
Refutation
defined, refutation techniques - challenges, lack of relevance, critique,
turning the tables, minimization. |
Snider,
Meany, Berube |
54 minutes |
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FIVE |
Argument
in the ideal and actual world, fallacies, personal bias in the audience
and the speaker, argument and the universal audience. |
Snider,
Meany, Berube |
44 minutes |
SIX |
Considerations
in format design, parliamentary debating, policy debating, Lincoln-Douglas
debating, public debating, media debating |
Meany, Whitmore,
Berube |
44 Minutes |
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SEVEN |
Topic analysis,
brainstorming for ideas, research, briefing |
Meany, Whitmore,
Berube |
40 Minutes |
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EIGHT |
Organizational
tools, building a case, organization while refuting, issue selection
during the debate, summaries, weighing issues |
Berube,
Meany, Snider |
49 Minutes |
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NINE |
Cross examination,
points of information, judging |
Meany, Whitmore,
Berube |
38 Minutes |
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TEN |
The role
of delivery in argument and persuasion, delivery guidelines, delivery
elements, nervousness and anxiety |
Berube,
Snider, Meany |
39 Minutes |
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ELEVEN |
Focus in
persuasion, cognitive elements; changing attitudes, beliefs, motives,
behavioral intention, behavior |
Meany, Snider,
Berube |
54 Minute |
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TWELVE |
Traditional
theories, information processing theories, elaboration likelihood model
of persuasion |
Snider |
46 Minutes |
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THIRTEEN |
Audience
analysis, audience-issue relationships, applying the elaboration likelihood
model to persuasion situations, persuasion and behavior. |
Berube,
Meany, Snider |
53 Minutes |
THE SPEAKERSAlfred Snider, University of Vermont,
USA John Meany, Claremont Colleges,
California, USA David Berube, University of South
Carolina, USA Marc Whitmore, English Speaking
Union, London, UK |
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